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  1. Re:Mozilla beware!! on IE6 SP1 Will Be Last Standalone Version · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is it technically possible? Yes.

    Would the Root certificate provider sign this virtual implementation? Almost certanly not.

    You could virtualize it at just about any layer. But the whole point of palladium is to ensure the whole thing is running on 'trusted [by the content provider]' hardware.

  2. Re:Parental Controls on Looking at Longhorn · · Score: 4, Informative

    if you peek around /etc/security/time.conf, PAM (which redhat uses at least) will manage access control for you that way.

    Any application that uses PAM will automatically time-locked accordingly.

  3. Re:What about ad-hoc cash transfers? on Cashless Society · · Score: 1

    Actually, for ad-hoc transfers, people could carry around a sorta-wallet type device. You can see a similar system demonstrated on Cowboy Beebop ;). (They collect a bounty, on a single card, and then they split the bounty in a little hand-held trasfering device where both cards can be placed.)

    This of course means that the technology becomes cheap enough that these transfer devices become ubiquitous

  4. Re:Dupe Dupe on Sony, Matsushita Back Linux For Consumer Goods · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think the sick part is that I didn't even realize that you repeated every word, until I noticed the "dupe dupe" at the end.

    Slashdot has me well trained

  5. use repeaters ... ? on Whisper Heard From Pioneer 10 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why didn't NASA send out repeaters behind it ? I'd imagine that a series of repeaters behind it would be able to get information back to us on earth...

  6. Re:What about TTY? on Cell Phones for the Deaf · · Score: 4, Funny

    My new Motorola phone I purchased this weekend mentions in it's menus Something about a TTY. I imagine I'd need data service from Verizon though.

  7. Re:It's a great idea, but... on An Informal Study Of K12 Classroom Software Costs · · Score: 2

    Is it better to train/indoctrine kids with one brand of software? Or expose them to multiple brands and variations, so they learn to think and are able to adapt to newer or different software?

    I crige everytime I hear someone say they only know MS Word. It's not all that hard to learn how wordprocessors work, and then it's easy to understand that there is a format menu w/ Character and paragraph formatting. Every word processor I've seen has this same concept.

    Open Source gives students an oppertunity to learn to think about how a computer works. School is supposed to teach kids to think, and not just memorize.

  8. Re:Promising vapor, but vapor nonetheless.... on New Display Technology to Compete with LCDs? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Check here

    They have a Palm display side-by-side with display with their technology. (it's b&w) you canhardly see any individual pixels on their screen. Text is rather crisp, almost printed.

  9. Re:Good! on Vatican/HP To Put Library Online · · Score: 2

    Find out here

    Google is everybody's friend.

  10. It's been done ... on Anoto-based Pens From Logitech · · Score: 2

    Check here

    It didn't do very well, applications never were developed for it. And the handwriting recognition wasn't very good either, but I never took the time to train it. A.T. Cross unfortuantly stopped making it.

    It used any notebook, but it had a special back you had to put the notepad in that recieved a signal the pen emitted. It only used serial, but this was back when USB was just showing up on the scene

  11. Re:If only the courts knew how to code on Eldred v. Ashcroft Oral Arguments · · Score: 1

    And you'd make a fine lawyer.

    damn users, you make it idiot-proof and they make better idiots

  12. *blink* on Google sued as PetsWarehouse Lawsuit Continues. · · Score: 2

    Any commercial site that uses blink on their tags deserves to be shot dead.

  13. If your the IT Department on Cheap SSL Certificates for Small Websites? · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... and can manage an installation of certificates on all clients, you can create your own certificate authority all by your self.

    Here are some *SIMPLE* instructions for building a self-signed CA cert, and then signing SSL certs for servers. Any real implentation should probably be assessed for security (like ca-generation on an isolated machine, etc ...)

    • openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout ca.key -out ca.req - Answer all questions it asks
    • openssl x509 -signkey ca.key -req -out ca.crt -in ca.req -days 1200 - Self- signs the CA certificate
    • openssl x509 -signkey ca.key -trustout -req -out ca-trust.crt -in ca.req -days 12000 - produces a "Trusted certificate"
    • use the first step to generate any other certificate requests. Some servers like IIS & Domino have their own request-generation tool.
    • openssl x509 -CA ca-trust.crt -CAkey ca.key -req -days 360 -in certificate-request.req -out cert.crt -CAserial ca.srl [-CAcreateserial] - to sign requests. The first time, you'll have to use CAcreateserial

    That's pretty much it. mix into your IT operations as nessecary

  14. GNUPG & WinPT on The Best of Windows Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    No's seemed to mention this one yet, but it's just as important

  15. 5 years down the line ... on HP to Heavily Support and Invest in .Net · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...there will be two companies:

    IBM-Sun, w/ java

    HP/COMPAQ-Microsoft w/ .net

  16. Re:And on the 9th September.. on Slashback: Segwait, Farscape, Leg-pulling · · Score: 1

    Nah, he just upgraded from an Apple II to the IIe.

  17. Re:In all honesty... on Linux Outpacing Macintosh On Desktops · · Score: 1

    Forget Natalie Portman petrified and naked, I'll take Ellen Feiss Stoned^h^h^h^h^h^h^hpetrified and naked ...

  18. Re:Need groupware? on Linux Replacing Windows More Than Unix · · Score: 2

    Notes client runs really well under wine. Domino server runs on linux as well The only thing that gets hairy is good support for COM objects ... but if your trying to move away from windows that shoulden't be a problem .. ?


  19. Re:Programs as flat text files - why? on Literate Programming and Leo · · Score: 2

    Definatly agree. Which begs the question, why is html still tag based, and wastefully duplicating information?

  20. Re:Programs as flat text files - why? on Literate Programming and Leo · · Score: 3, Funny

    program in html/xml? Lisp/scheme lends itself nicely to this, witness:

    (display (+ 4 (+ 3 4)))

    becomes

    <display> <+>4 <+>3 4</+></+></display>

  21. ZZT Was an awsome game, along the lines of a on Where are the 'Construction Set' Games? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    construction-set game. I used to build elaborate

    worlds in ZZT and have great fun. The script editor was kinda klunky, but once you got used to it, it was really powerful

    Of course, once you learned how to edit the levels, and you got the unlocker that could unlock the shipped levels, beating the game was pretty easy ;)

  22. Re:Prove I opened it on Are You Being Served? Don't Open That Email! · · Score: 1

    Right --- and MS under supoena woulden't provide their web logs to authorities ...

  23. Re:Taking the benefits and giving nothing back. on AOL To Finally Switch To Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    AOLServer ?

    I've read some reports that in certain sitations, AOLServer can beat Apache in terms of speed

    Also, although minor, the tcl based tik and tac. They also made their TOC protocol open for anyone to use ...

  24. Re:Oh my on Lance Bass to Continue to Plague Earth's Surface · · Score: 1

    well, my b.

    searing for "N'Sync" only got one.

    Still 4 links out of the entire history of slashdot makes it a pretty rare occurance ...

  25. Oh my on Lance Bass to Continue to Plague Earth's Surface · · Score: 1

    Wait a min --- something is weird with this story ....



    A quick search confirmed my suspicion -- this is the FIRST TIME N'Sync has ever been mentioned in a story directly. Slashdot has managed to avoid their names for this long ....